D.H. Lawrence's Australia

David Game

(Ashgate, UK 2015)

David Game's recent book describes Lawrence's "rich engagement" with the country he found both fascinating and frustrating

Kangaroo

D.H. Lawrence

The Svengali Press has published a new edition of Lawrence's Australian novel Kangaroo featuring "The text he really wanted". Importantly, this new edition is the first since the novel was originally published by Secker and Seltzer in September 1923.

(Available on most online book sites such as Amazon.com.)

The Horrible Paws

Robert Darroch

(The Svengai Press, Sydney 2019)

The fourth of Robert Darroch's biographical accounts of Lawrence's 99 days in Australia and the novel he wrote there, Kangaroo

Kangaroo

D.H. Lawrence

(Cambridge University Press, 1974)

The"official" text of Lawrence's 1923 Australian novel, Kangaroo, edited by Melbounre academic Dr Bruce Steele

D.H. Lawrence at Thirroul

Joseph Davis

(Imprint, Sydney, 1999)

Dr Davis, a school-teacher in Thirroul, chronicled the time Lawrence spent in Thirroul in his cottage by the sea, "Wyewurk"

Kangaroo

D.H. Lawrence

(Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1923)

The first American edition of Kangaroo, with its famous "broken streamers" cover, flawed by the its incorrect ending (repeated in the 1974 CUP edition)

The Fifth Sparrow

Mollie Skinner

(Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1972)

Mollie Skinner was a nurse who ran a guesthouse at Darlington outside Perth, where Lawrence and Frieda stayed for a week before going on to Sydney. Her book includes an account of Lawrence's time in Western Australia.

Kangaroo

D.H. Lawrence

(Imprint, Sydney, 1982)

The third Australian edition of Kangaroo, with a cover and illustrations by Australian artist Garry Shead. (The edition uses the 1923 Seltzer text.) See below for the second Australian edition.

D.H. Lawrence in Australia

Robert Darroch

(Macmillan, Australia, 1981)

Robert Darroch's first book on Lawrence's time in Australia, which launched what historian Andrew Moore christened "the Darroch Thesis" about Lawrence's involvement with a secret army on which he based his novel Kangaroo

Kangaroo

D.H. Lawrence

(in the Phoenix Edition of Lawrence's works, Heinemann, London, 1950)

This was the first post-war edition of Kangaroo (edited by Richard Aldington and based on the 1923 Secker UK edition, with its "correct" longer ending)

The Secret Army and the Premier

Andrew Moore

(University of NSW Press, Sydney, 1989)

Dr Moore's history of the "Old Guard", the successor to the secret army that Lawrence encountered in Sydney in 1922 (Dr Moore invented the term "the Darroch Thesis")

Kangaroo

D.H. Lawrence

(Viking, New York, 1950.)

A later, post-war edition of Kangaroo, using the correct 1923 Secker text, edited by Richard Aldington

D.H. Lawrence's 99 Days in Australia

Vol. 1

The Quest for Cooley

Robert Darroch

(The Svengali Press, Sydney, 2016)

This first volume of Robert Darroch's account of Lawrence's time in Australia tells the story of Darroch's search for the truth about Lawrence came to write Kangaroo

Kangaroo

D.H. Lawrence

(Penguin, London, 1950)

The "popular" post-war Penguin edition of Kangaroo, with the longer correct Secker text (embellished with various covers, including this one post-2000 one). The Penguin edition became the main global paperback edition from 1950 onwards until the CUP edition which was then converted into the new "authorative" (but incorrect) text

D.H. Lawrence's 99 Days in Australia

Vol. 2

The Silvery Freedom

Robert Darroch

(The Svengali Press, Sydney, 2016)

Robert Darroch's day-by-day reconstruction of how D.H. Lawrence came to write his Australian novel, Kangaroo (now superceded by the 2018 Svengali revised edition)

Kangaroo

D.H. Lawrence

(Penguin, London, 1950)

The famous original Penguin 1950 edition of Kangaroo with its distinctive paperback cover

Kangaroo

D.H. Lawrence

(Penguin, London, 1950)

A contemporary Penguin edition with yet another cover, this one allegedly depicting the final meeting between Cooley and Somers

Kangaroo

D.H. Lawrence

(Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1983)

A rare post-war Australian edition of Kangaroo taking advantage of the Seltzer text coming out of copyright in 1981

The Boy in the Bush

D.H. Lawrence and Mollie Skinner

(Seltzer, New York, 1926)

This rare American Seltzer edition of Lawrence's "other" Australian novel was in fact his re-write of his Western Australian landlady's novel. It featured Dorothy Brett's brilliant cover.